From Molly, the personal name, a pet form of Mary. In some cases it is possibly derived from mollitia (“softness, weakness”). Drug sense probably influenced by the initial of MDMA.
Meanings
(Ireland, countable, uncountable) A woman or girl, especially of low status or prostitute.
(countable, slang, uncountable) a male homosexual, especially an effeminate one.
(slang, uncountable) Pure MDMA powder.
Was pissed now. But also hyper-lit, euphoric almost, given the adrenaline plus molly. 2022, Sean Thor Conroe, Fuccboi, Hachette, →ISBN:
Well…you want to do these together then? Pure Molly… 2015 June 24, Sam Esmail, “eps1.0_hellofriend.mov”, in Mr. Robot, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Shayla:
So la-da-di-da-di, we like to party / Dancing with Molly / Doing whatever we want 2013, “We Can't Stop”, in Bangerz, performed by Miley Cyrus:
(countable, uncountable) A mollemoke.
So the petrels called to the mollys: but they were so busy and greedy, gobbling and pecking and spluttering and fighting over the blubber, that they did not take the least notice. 1863, Charles Kingsley, The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby:
(countable, uncountable) A female cat, a she-cat (usually spayed)
From Molly, the personal name, a pet form of Mary. In some cases it is possibly derived from mollitia (“softness, weakness”). Drug sense probably influenced by the initial of MDMA.
Meanings
To engage in (male) homosexual activity with.
It is a case of the biter bit, or the molly-taker mollied, but it is also an interesting example of the ways in which the criminal underworld and sexual underworld met in eighteenth-century London 2017, Peter Ackroyd, Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day:
I said, "I never mollied you." My Lord, I never laid Hands upon him, nor touch'd him. 1998, Netta Murray Goldsmith, The Worst of Crimes, page 79:
On one occasion, Partridge was nearly mobbed in a molly-house when some men called him a 'treacherous, blowing-up, mollying bitch, and swore they'd massacre anybody that should betray them.' 2007, Matt Cook, A Gay History of Britain:
(India, South-Asia, alt-of, alternative) Alternative spelling of mali (“a member of a caste in South Asia whose traditional occupation is gardening; hence, any South Asian gardener”).
Brimstone, Viper, and Phoenix's mollies were adjusted during a closed beta patch, changing the damage tick speed so players couldn't avoid damage by bunny hopping. Killjoy's Nanoswarm will likely follow suit. 2020 August 5, Andreas Stavropoulos, “Hiko on Killjoy's Nanoswarm: "I think they do a lot of damage too fast and I think it's hard to even tell you're in a molly sometimes"”, in Dot Esports, archived from the original on 11 Aug 2022: